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SEPTEMBER
17, 2004
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James A. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences
Brooklyn College of CUNY
Brooklyn, NY
"Coffee, tea, caffeine, weight change and diabetes"
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SEPTEMBER
24, 2004
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Sally Lederman, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
"Measuring body composition during pregnancy for the National Children's
Study"
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OCTOBER
1, 2004
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Mark J. Kupersmith,
M.D.
Professor of Neurology and Opthamology
NYU Medical Center
Beth Israel Medical Center Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery
"Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor
cerebri): an illness of young obese women"
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OCTOBER
8, 2004
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Dawn L. Brasaemle,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences
Cook College, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
"Adipocyte lipid droplet-associated proteins
and the control of triacylglycerol metabolism"
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OCTOBER
15, 2004
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Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead
Johnson
Nutrition Awards Symposium
Hosted by the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition
Richard J. Deckelbaum, Director
Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Cancer Biology
Boston, Massachusetts
"Nuclear receptors, diet and metabolic syndrome"
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OCTOBER
22, 2004
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Kong Chen, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Department of Medicine - Division of Gastroenterology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
"Predicting energy expenditure of physical activity in humans"
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OCTOBER
29, 2004
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Jennifer Nasser, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
Eunice Boo
INTEL Science Intern
John F. Kennedy High School
Bellmore, LI, NY
"Interaction of food deprivation state and eating behavior recall: implications
for obesity prevention and treatment research"
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NOVEMBER
5, 2004
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Per M. Hellström,
Ph.D., M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Unit of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
"Ghrelin in the Gastrointestinal Tract"
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NOVEMBER
12, 2004
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NAASO REHEARSAL
Stan Heshka, Ph.D.. and
the Look AHEAD body composition writing group
"Relation of BMI to percent body fat in subjects with type 2 diabetes
mellitus"
Kathleen Keller, Ph.D. et al.
"Validation of an analog instrument for measuring fullness in preschool
children"
Kathleen Keller, Ph.D. et al. "Do mothers feed their children
similarly? Maternal feeding attitudes and styles and their associations with
child BMI"
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NOVEMBER
19, 2004
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NO CONFERENCE - NAASO
MEETING
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NOVEMBER
26, 2004
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NO CONFERENCE -
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
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DECEMBER
3, 2004
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2004 Wu Lectureship
Hosted by the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition
Richard J. Deckelbaum, Director
Eddy M. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley CA
"Extreme comparative genomics"
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DECEMBER
10, 2004
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Jack Wang, M.S.
Co-Director
Body Composition Unit
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
"Assessment of body volume and dimensions using a 3-D body image
scanner"
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DECEMBER
17, 2004
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Mary Horlick,
M.D.
Department of Pediatrics
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Body Composition Unit
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
"Assessment of pediatric bone mass"
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DECEMBER
24, 2004
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NO CONFERENCE - WINTER
HOLIDAYS
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DECEMBER
31, 2004
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NO CONFERENCE - WINTER
HOLIDAYS
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JANUARY
5, 2005
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Wei Shen,
M.D.
Research Associate
Department of Medicine
Associate Research Scientist
Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University
"Central obesity measurements and health risk"
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JANUARY
14, 2005
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Simon Klebanov,
Ph. D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
"Adipose tissue and skin carcinogenesis"
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JANUARY
21, 2005
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Haiying Tang, Ph.D.
Senior Research Biologist
Merck Research Laboratories
Rahway, New Jersey
"MRI assessment of the growth effects of anabolic steroids in a guinea
pig model"
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JANUARY
28, 2005
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Zimian Wang, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
"Measuring growth energy expenditure at the cellular body composition
level"
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FEBRUARY
4, 2005
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Joshua I. Hrabosky, Psy.D.
Doctoral Intern
McLean Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Belmont, MA
"The assessment of body image in obesity and weight-related problems:
current state and future directions"
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FEBRUARY
11, 2005
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NO CONFERENCE - POSTPONED
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FEBRUARY
18, 2005
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Mark Punyanitya
Biomedical Engineer
Director, Image Reading Center
"New developments in body composition imaging"
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FEBRUARY
25, 2005
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Sharon L. Wardlaw, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Columbia University - College of P&S
New York, NY
"The hypothalamic melanocortin system and the
regulation of energy balance"
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MARCH
4, 2005
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Earle Chambers, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
"The relationship of lung function, body composition and insulin
resistance in African-American elderly: a pilot study"
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MARCH
11, 2005
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Blandine Laferrere,
M.D.
Research Associate
Department of Medicine
New York Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYC
"Effect of ghrelin analogue GHRP-2 on food
intake in humans"
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MARCH
18, 2005
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Xavier Pi-Sunyer, M.D.
Director
New York Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYC
"The endocannabinoid system and weight
loss"
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MARCH
25, 2005
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NO CONFERENCE - RELIGIOUS
HOLIDAY
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APRIL
1, 2005
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Tony Goldstone, M.D., Ph.D.
Division of Pediatric Genetics
University of Florida, College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL
"Ghrelin, hormones, and hunger in Prader-Willi syndrome and obesity"
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APRIL
8, 2005
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Anthony J. Hulbert, Ph.D.,
D.Sc.
Metabolic Research Centre
School of Biological Sciences
University of Wollongong
Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia
"Life, death and membrane bilayers"
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APRIL
15, 2005
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Susan C. Ettinger, Ph.D., R.D.
Chair, Clinical Nutrition Department
Director, Molecular Nutrition Laboratory
School of Allied Health and Life Sciences
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, NY
"Pilot curriculum to train the translational nutrition scientist"
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APRIL
22, 2005
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Congwu Du, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY
Assistant Professor
SUNY at Stony Brook
"Optical-spectroscopy diagnosis of physiological function in vivo"
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APRIL
29, 2005
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Anthony Ferrante,
M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Columbia University P&S
New York, NY
"Macrophages and obesity"
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MAY
6, 2005
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Mary Horlick,
M.D.
Research Associate
Department of Pediatrics
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
"Pediatric body composition: past and future"
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MAY
13, 2005
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Stanley Heshka,
Ph.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
"What can a website do for obesity research?"
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MAY
20, 2005
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Steve Arpadi,
M.D.
Center for Comprehensive Care
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
New York City
"Metabolic bone disease in pediatric HIV"
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MAY
27, 2005
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Matthias Tschöp, M.D.
Associate Professor
Obesity Research Center
Department of Psychiatry
University or Cincinnati, OH
"Ghrelin - the hunger hormone from the
stomach?"
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JUNE
3, 2005
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Avraham Dilmanian,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
State University of New York
Stony Brook, L.I., NY
"Longitudinal studies of bone and fat vs. lean tissue in rats and mice
with Brookhaven Laboratory's new high resolution Micro-CT system"
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JUNE
10, 2005
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NO CONFERENCE - DIABETES-ENDOCRINE
MEETINGS, SAN DIEGO, CA
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JUNE
17, 2005
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Jennifer Nasser, Ph.D.,
R.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYC
"Binge Eating Disorder (BED) through the eyes of the dietitian - comparison
of nutritional assessment with DSM-IV criteria"
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JUNE
24, 2005
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Tsan-Hon Liou,
M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
New York Obesity Research Center
Taipei Medical University
Wan Fang Hospital, Taiwan
"Using internet-based videoconferencing in a weight loss program: a
pilot study"
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